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Checkout the date on photo!!!!!
I can confirm that 3 out of 4 "LYD golf campers"
played golf on a high school golf team, just saying! (From left front row: Zora Moore , Radhika Ragam)
(From left, back row: "Coach" Lyd, Jen Smith, Lauren Johnson) |
Johnny's and my hearts go out to the victims, their families, on-scene "heroes", first responders and all the medical staff who assisted with treating the mass casualties in the Las Vegas mass shooting. I do not have the words, no one can: to explain the unexplainable.
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Time being that amazing thing that it is, I have a lot available right now (I'm glad) so I have been doing some (long overdo) archiving. As many of you know, I am recovering from a traumatic accident.
You can read about it here. These archives are not only mine and Johnny's but YOURS!
I got to spend so much time with the junior/student golfers, siblings, parents, aunts and uncles..the list goes on! As I looked through these photos, I recalled the heat and happy hearts! Parents were so cute dropping off and picking up their daughters from the camp.
Time is a really great healer. I hope you enjoy SKIPPING down MEMORY LANE and look at some of the great & fun (I think) junior girls golf programs I have "concocted" over the years.
I found these photos from my 2005 & 2006 summer girls golf camps. It was such a cool idea for some hot summer July evenings. The camp took place at Copper Hill Country club but was OPEN TO ALL Hunterdon County girls ages 7-17 to attend the camp regardless of their family's club affiliation.
Yea, baby! That's HOW TO GROW the game: give EVERYONE access to the sport with a CONSISTENT, RELIABLE schedule and SAFE environment.
I encouraged girls of ALL skill/experience levels to participate. I was able to employ & train high school girls and boys who played golf on my Hunterdon Central Varsity Girls golf team or a boys golf team.
The camp counselors received pre-camp training (yes, really) on how to interact with the youngsters (i.e. get down to their eye level) safety, Vision 54 positive feedback strategies, how to employ auditory/visual learning techniques (i.e STICKERS!!!!) along with learning each station. Counselors had to demonstrate proficiency to me prior to being present at an actual camp session.
As a former physics teacher, I learned that an environment has to be a safe and positive for maximum learning to be inspired. As a teacher whether it was physics or in this case, golf that was my mantra:let's inspire these youngsters into learning a bit more about "it."
Once inspired, their imaginations take off, their bounds are limitless and they will AMAZE!
It was an honor to create, plan and run the camp for "the girls!" Rumor has it that Coach LYD aka GGG Director & Founder thinks its time for a Girls Golf & GOGA (what???!!!) Reunion!
Stay tuned!
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Camp counselor Kim Smith encourages her group of campers on a hot July afternoon:
Penny, Claire, Inna & Gianna! (3 of 5 girls played on HCRHS girls golf team) |
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Swinging through the ball with authority is Marissa (a future HC girls golf team member)!
Nice job catching the "physics" in action by the photographer! |
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It appears that Michelle Wie is channeling 2006
HCRHS Red Devils captain
& LYD girls golf camp counselor Meg Willke--who knew? |
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L.Y.D. camp director & HCRHS Pioneering Varsity Girls Golf Team Coach
Lydia Siipola guides Julie on the tee. |
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| Up, up and away to the 11th green at CHCC! |
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| Jen Smith gets ready in the play box at CHCC! |
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| Up, up and away to the par 3 11th hole! |
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Putting games with Krystie Hanntz &
(future HC Girls golf team member!) Gianna Castaldo! |
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| Future DVRHS golf team member Zora Moore |
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| Zora visualizing her shot! |
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Oh, by gosh by golly! Time for some summer girls golf camp FOLLY!
(From left: Kristin, (future HC girls golf team member) Deanna, Laurie and Penny) |
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| Inna (future HC girls golf member)proudly watches her sis Mallory make that putt! |
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ALEX shows her A+ balance!
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| A look WAY back when riding in the golf cart was so FUN! |
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Rutgers Prep Golf team & Copper Hill Country Club member Frank Sternberg,jr.
transforms into a LYD girls golf camp counselor!
From left: Julie, Jen, Lauren & Alex. |
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| Having fun at the TRUST station! |
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| With determination & her patented panache: INNA DOWD! |
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| Time for a summer golf camp photo! |
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| Krystie Hanntz swings freely! |
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| Radhika Ragam makes us think golf is EASY! |
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| Lauren Johnson has one thought in mind! |
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| This ball is gonna FLY! |
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| Deanna watches her ball fly into the bucket! |
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Summer LYD girls golf camp counselor Frank Sternberg, jr leads Krystie, Marissa,
Jennifer and Mallory towards earning their golf stickers! |
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North Hunterdon boys golf team, CHCC member & newly minted L.Y.D. summer girls camp counselor
Erik Adolfsson pause swith his group on the par 5 15th hole at "our home" Copper Hill country Club
From left: Kristin ,Deanna, Laurie & Jenny! |
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HC girls golf & basketball team & Stanton Ridge golf and country club member
Steph Tully pauses on the putting game with her TEAM!
From left: Katie, Steph, Kristin & Liza. |
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Radhika,Zora, Marissa & Krystie: seems like its time for a
L.Y.D. girls golf camp REUNION!!!! Coach aka Miss Lydia
hopes you are all still golfing!!!! |
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| Girls Golf MEDIA-BLITZ sounds good to me! |
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Camp counselor, HCRHS boys team& Copper Hill Country club member
Bobby Bernard pauses on the putting green with his AWESOME SMILING group! |
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Camp counselor, HC Girls golf team & Copper Hill country club member
Nikki Suseck takes a smile
break at the birdie bracelet-making station! |
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| Katie, Liza, Meg, Julie and Alex are ALL SMILES! "Coach LYD" hopes you still play the game! |
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| This is September, 2017 with my 10 year old niece. We are doing windshield wipers, wiffle ball chipping and taking turns standing on one foot or using one arm to pitch REAL golf balls to our target. My eyes have healed up pretty nicely (especially the left one--yikes!) and progress is happening. I promised that I would NOT post day one and on photos. But now, that TIME has moved on (it will be twenty-four months on Dec. 27) I just gotta KEEP SMILING and REMAIN UNDAUNTED & deal with the residue! |
